揠

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揠 U+63E0, 揠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-63E0
← 揟
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 握 →

Translingual

Han character

揠 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 手尸日女 (QSAV), four-corner 51014, composition ⿰扌匽)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 443, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12363
  • Dae Jaweon: page 794, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1913, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+63E0

Chinese

trad. 揠
simp. # 揠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 揠
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (妟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
堰 *qrens, *qanʔ, *qans
躽 *qrens, *qeːnʔ
宴 *qeːnʔ, *qeːns
蝘 *qeːnʔ, *qanʔ
偃 *qanʔ
郾 *qanʔ, *qans
鶠 *qanʔ
褗 *qanʔ, *qans
匽 *qanʔ
鼴 *qanʔ
鰋 *qanʔ
揠 *qreːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qreːd) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 匽 (OC *qanʔ).

Pronunciation

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.
Rime
Character 揠
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 鎋 (75)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 烏黠切
Baxter 'eat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔˠɛt̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔᵚæt̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔæt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔəɨt̚/
Li
Rong 		/ʔɛt̚/
Wang
Li 		/æt̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ʔat̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		ya
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		aat3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 揠
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yà
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ʔɛt ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔˁrt/
English pull up

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 揠
Reading # 1/1
No. 14396
Phonetic
component 		妟
Rime
group 		月
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		軋
Old
Chinese 		/*qreːd/

Definitions

揠

  1. to pull up
  2. to promote

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

揠

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. to pull up
  2. to eradicate

Readings

  • On (unclassified): さつ (satsu)、あつ (atsu)
  • Kun: ぬく (nuku)、ふだ (fuda)

Korean

Hanja

揠 • (al) (hangeul 알, revised al, McCune–Reischauer al, Yale al)

  1. pull out
  2. extract

Vietnamese

Han character

揠: Hán Nôm readings: kiền, loát

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References

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